A native of Dublin, Ireland, Brian has been working in the documentary and commercial film world in New York City for over twenty years.  After studying Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, he moved to New York in 1985 and began a career in Film and Television, working extensively as a documentary cinematographer and is now proving himself quite an emerging talent as a Commercial, Music Video and Feature DP.

 Brian’s commercial work includes spots for Nike, GE, Warsteiner, Mudd Jeans, Motorola, Air Canada, and WNBA with P.S.A’s  for Partnership for Drug free America and U.S. Paralympics. In '06, the faux P.S.A MarcandTom.com which caught a lot of industry attention in Shoot and Boards Magazines won a Bronze Lion at Cannes in '05. 

Music Videos include Jizz in my Pants, Lonely Island, Wu Tang Clan’s Mastakilla and ODB in Old Man a collaboration with Babyface Edmonds, Wake-Up with Mary J. Blige, Wyclef Jean, Jamie Foxx and Missy Elliott. Other Videos include Crystal Method, Ours, The Heavy, Steve Earl, Midnight Youth and Boyz2Men. 

Brian has photographed many documentaries for PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, the BBC and Channel 4 in the U.K. including Heroes of Ground Zero a story of two firehouses in NYC, in the days immediately following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
 
Over the course of the last 5 years, Brian has completed about fifteen short films and five feature films, one of which Conventioneers  (the story of a doomed love affair between a republican and a democrat, with the RNC in New York as a backdrop), won the IFC ‘John Casevettes Award” (Best feature under $500k) 2006, and was an official selection at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, Brian also co-produced the film.

2007 sees the completion of Winter of Frozen Dreams, an indie feature with Thora Birch and Keith Carradine, and of another film No Money with director Rania Ajami. Brian accepted the prestigious “Emerging Cinematographer Award 2007” from the ICG for a short entitled Cherry Bloom. In 2009 Brian shot a short art film 8 for infinity with David Carradine directed by Michael Maxxis which has been entered in Cannes 2010, and NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg’s re-election Campaign.

Echo Prime is an existential/sci-fi indie feature to be shot in Dubai, in pre production this year with director Alex Moors.

He currently resides in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.